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Council Rock is currently immersed in this successful campaign which aims to reduce underage drinking among youth ages 9 to 15 by providing parents and caregivers with information and resources they need to start addressing the issue of alcohol with their children early.

Interactive Tool Helps Parents “Start the Talk“

Start the Talk is the newest component of “Talk. They Hear You.“, SAMHSA’s national underage drinking prevention campaign, which launched last May. The Campaign equips parents and caregivers with the information, tools, and confidence they need to start talking to their kids early—as early as 9 years old—about the dangers of alcohol.

Start the Talk is an evidence-based behavioral tool that uses life-like avatars to engage in interactive conversations. The simulation is based on research in social cognition, learning theory, and neuroscience. Each virtual role-play conversation is structured as a 10 to 12 minute interactive experience. Users enter a risk-free practice environment, assume a parental role, and engage in a conversation with an intelligent, fully animated and emotionally responsive avatar that models human behavior and adapts its responses and behaviors to the user’s conversation decisions.

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What people are saying...

I wanted to write today to share my positive experiences with Council Rock’s Coalition for Healthy Youth’s (CRCHY) Parenting Academy. I have 4 boys in the school district from the high school on down to elementary school and I have often wondered about the classes made available at the Chancellor St. School. I started with the Staying Connected to your Teen class. The class follows several hypothetical families and compares and contrasts the parent’s interactions with their children. There is information to be gained from each of the examples. Possibly even more helpful than the course material is the conversation that develops with the other parents in the class. READ MORE...